This report evaluates disparities in health and health care across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U ...

A growing number of medical practices are backed by private equity investment, a shift that is impacting physician income and ...

Novel medicines hold promise for patients, but rising costs pose affordability and equity challenges for health systems ...

The renewed debate over Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing in the United States reflects a legitimate frustration: ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. As enrollment in ...

Congress authorized more than $900 billion in Medicaid cuts, the largest in the program’s 60-year history, when it passed its budget reconciliation bill in July 2025. The tax and spending law, known ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. Yet the goal of ...

Primary care is facing existential challenges — from lower relative investment compared to specialty care to clinician burnout — which are particularly acute in rural communities. 1 For the more than ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. Over the next 10 years, ...

Compared to those who are uninsured, people with health coverage tend to live longer, healthier lives — both in terms of clinical outcomes and self-reported health — and have greater financial ...

The main purpose of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make health coverage affordable and available to all Americans, with the goal of near-universal coverage. To build on existing coverage (namely ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...